Covid-19 special envoy David Nabarro passes away at 75
"David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says
David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's special envoy for Covid-19 since the early stages of the outbreak in 2020, has passed away at the age of 75, the WHO said on Saturday (26 July).
"David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of the Briton in a post on X.
Nabarro was also co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College in London.
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At the height of the pandemic in 2021 Nabarro called for more global cooperation and aid to poorer countries during a health crisis he said was "nothing like anything else we've ever seen in my professional life".
In 2017, he was a candidate for WHO director general, finishing second to Tedros in the election.
